Compared to other drugs marijuana is proven one of the safest. Most people act like marijuana is so bad, or it makes you make bad decisions. All marijuana really does is slow your mind down. It does not make it so you can not think for yourself, you can still function and think properly. The only way marijuana hurts you is in the long run, and in order for this to happen you have to consume between 20 and 40,000 joints/ blunts. And this is not guaranteeing that if you smoke that much that you will get hurt, this number is just for fatality. So you have to smoke a lot to hurt yourself, or people around you. With that being said, marijuana should be legal because, it is not causing major injuries if you are only smoking it every now and then. Studies have proven that marijuana is far safer than alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs. It has also been found that marijuana is less likely to kill u. Researchers say, marijuana is illegal because it was overestimated in the past. Although alcohol was underestimated, studies show this drug is more deadly than heroin. Many world governments like the United States are more …show more content…
Researchers say that legal regulations might be a better approach than recent prohibitions. Those are the findings of a new report published in Scientific Reports that compares the lethality of the recreational use of 10 common drugs, including marijuana, alcohol, tobacco, heroin, cocaine, ecstasy, methamphetamine, diazepam, amphetamine and methadone. Studies have shown that marijuana has the lowest death risk, and is safer than commonly used alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs. “Still, in what is likely thousands of years of human consumption, there have been no documented deaths as a result of marijuana overdose. According to a 1988 ruling from the DEA, a marijuana user would have to consume 20,000 to 40,000 times the amount of THC in a joint to be at risk of a fatal